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Post by The Doctor on Apr 7, 2021 18:52:58 GMT
I may have reacquired the Heir to the Empire trilogy and the first of the current continuity Thrawn novels for the summer reading pile.
The Mandalorian has sucked me back into Star Wars.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 8, 2021 22:56:31 GMT
Be warned the 2nd Thrawn book has significant portions set during AOTC and it has the feel of AOTC - i.e. fucking awful.
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 9, 2021 10:03:08 GMT
It will be a few months before I pick that up and read it. Big reading pile and my concentration levels are currently not great.
'Darth Plagueis' is good. Rather more graphic violence than I would like in a Star Wars story but on its own merits it's a good novel. Not for kids though!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 13, 2021 19:49:47 GMT
Finished it. Very good. It actually makes The Phantom Menace have dramatic weight.
Re-reading Heir to the Empire. Shocked to realise it is now 30 years old!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 26, 2021 21:45:14 GMT
I may have reacquired the Heir to the Empire trilogy. -Ralph It's good though a point off for calling the Luke clone 'Luuke'. -Ralph |
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Post by Jim on Apr 27, 2021 8:30:47 GMT
I may have reacquired the Heir to the Empire trilogy. -Ralph It's good though a point off for calling the Luke clone 'Luuke'. Pronouncing that out loud just makes me think of Aunt Beru calling him in for dinner |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 27, 2021 8:44:00 GMT
Ahahahahahahahaha!!!
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 29, 2021 21:30:17 GMT
Golly. Timothy Zahn's novel 'Thrawn' is really rather good. Best novel I've read in ages.
-Ralph
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Post by Jim on Apr 30, 2021 9:00:05 GMT
I've been meaning to read that for ages, might move it to the top of the list. Really struggling to read at the moment, something compelling and relatively easy might be just what I need.
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2021 12:04:03 GMT
Be warned the 2nd Thrawn book has significant portions set during AOTC and it has the feel of AOTC - i.e. fucking awful. Hmmm, yes, it's not grabbing me. He has the tone of the Clones era down pat: I can hear Hadyn Christianson saying the words. So mileage may vary. -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 6, 2021 17:48:16 GMT
That's the problem, if it had been the AOTC stuff but via his own voice it might have been bearable.
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Post by The Doctor on May 12, 2021 12:32:14 GMT
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Post by Nigel on May 12, 2021 21:29:41 GMT
It's nice to see, reading to the end of the article, that some authors' issues have been resolved. The situation rather comes across to me that Disney were trying to get away without paying, hoping no-one would notice.
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Post by The Doctor on May 13, 2022 9:05:19 GMT
Thrawn Ascendency Book 1 was great.Really enjoyed it.
Book 2 is 400 pages of filler with barely a plot in it. Could have been done in 50 pages. Also: Thrawn is hardly in it. Disappointing.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 5, 2024 16:25:00 GMT
I read PHASMA. It was shite. Imagine someone wrote a 'Mad Max: Fury Road' fanfic and did a Search-And-Replace on the names.
Apparently, there is a semi-sequel. Giving that a miss.
-Ralph
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Post by Sidero on Jul 5, 2024 19:57:53 GMT
I read PHASMA. It was shite. Imagine someone wrote a 'Mad Max: Fury Road' fanfic and did a Search-And-Replace on the names. Apparently, there is a semi-sequel. Giving that a miss. -Ralph You made the right call. I, on the other hand, read the semi-sequel. It was little more than a 500-page brochure for the theme park with the merest hint of a story included. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 6, 2024 15:00:40 GMT
Never bothered with either, sounds like I made the right call.
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